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View all→Sprite editor with AI assist and Godot export
Generate and export game-ready pixel sprite sheets
Drop an image, get a game-ready 3D asset — on Apple Silicon.
One-click Windows studio built on ACE-Step 1.5 XL
Production-ready images, video, audio and 3D — generated from any agent.
Your own one-person game studio, orchestrated by AI.
Turn a novel or screenplay into a finished video, on your own server.
A general-purpose AIGC video engine: script to finished film in one pipeline.
Effort-free video editing: it cuts the dead air for you.
Point Claude at any game — and let it mod almost anything.
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View all→Open video generation models and tools. Hardware requirements vary a lot, so check the setup card first.
9 overallTurn a novel or screenplay into a finished video, on your own server.
81 dramaclawA general-purpose AIGC video engine: script to finished film in one pipeline.
72 FunClipTranscribe, subtitle and LLM-clip long videos — locally.
79 auto-editorEffort-free video editing: it cuts the dead air for you.
60 reelmimicShow it a video you love; get a new video in the same style.
75 whisperXWord-level timestamps on top of Whisper-class ASR
14 SadTalkerTalking-head video from one photo plus audio
8 MotionCtrlControllable camera/object motion for AI video
7 i2vgen-xlImage-to-video for animating concept art
Open-source image generation UIs, pipelines and models, from node-based workflows to one-click web UIs.
11 overallA vision-language model that fits on a laptop and reads video.
10 MiniCPM-V-2_6A 3B model that sees, hears and reads — with excellent OCR.
80 dicebearDeterministic avatars and illustrations for developers — 30+ styles, one API.
78 image-to-3dlabDrop an image, get a game-ready 3D asset — on Apple Silicon.
16 Real-ESRGANPractical super-resolution for photos, anime and frames
10 InstantIDKeep the same face across generated images without heavy fine-tuning
58 TRELLISStructured image-to-3D for game props
58 TripoSRFast feed-forward image-to-3D
13 InstantMeshEfficient image-to-3D meshes
7 stable-dreamfusionClassic open text-to-3D playground
8 OmostLLM-composed canvases for structured concept art
Tools for making and restyling pictures by hand or by code: pixel art editors, procedural avatars and style-mimicry pipelines.
12 overallShow it a video you love; get a new video in the same style.
80 dicebearDeterministic avatars and illustrations for developers — 30+ styles, one API.
81 PixeloramaA free, open pixel art multitool — sprites, animation and palettes.
77 PixiEditorOne universal 2D editor: pixels, vectors, animation and node graphs.
14 SadTalkerTalking-head video from one photo plus audio
16 Real-ESRGANPractical super-resolution for photos, anime and frames
10 InstantIDKeep the same face across generated images without heavy fine-tuning
59 texel-studioPixel-art agent that paints sprites tool-by-tool
67 spritebrewGenerate and export game-ready pixel sprite sheets
68 spritesageSprite editor with AI assist and Godot export
8 OmostLLM-composed canvases for structured concept art
3 PuLIDPuLID (Pure and Lightning ID customization) is an identity-consistent image generation method: one reference photo is enough to place the same character into new scenes, styles and outfits — without the heavy fine-tuning LoRA training usually requires.
Speech recognition and text-to-speech projects. Language coverage and license terms matter as much as quality here.
9 overallStudio-quality TTS from an 82M model you can run on a CPU.
63 DiffSingerDiffusion-based singing voice synthesis toolkit
70 F5-TTSFast zero-shot TTS with natural prosody
75 fish-speechMultilingual open TTS with an active community
20 OpenVoiceInstant voice cloning with style control
65 Retrieval-based-Voice-Conversion-WebUIThe default WebUI for voice conversion covers
75 whisperXWord-level timestamps on top of Whisper-class ASR
60 voice-changerReal-time AI voice changer for streams and games
13 so-vits-svcClassic open singing voice conversion stack
Compose, accompany, sample and transform music with open models and tools — separate from speech TTS/ASR.
17 overallLocal full-song music generation that fits on a consumer GPU
78 YuEOpen music model with symbolic planning and zero-shot covers
35 ACE-StepEarlier ACE-Step stack — still useful if you follow v1 tutorials
19 demucsSplit any track into vocals, drums, bass and other stems
60 stable-audio-toolsTraining and inference toolkit for Stable Audio open models
42 audiocraftMusicGen and companion models for text-to-music
63 DiffSingerDiffusion-based singing voice synthesis toolkit
75 ACE-Step-StudioOne-click Windows studio built on ACE-Step 1.5 XL
65 Retrieval-based-Voice-Conversion-WebUIThe default WebUI for voice conversion covers
28 DiffRhythm2Full songs with lyric alignment via block flow matching
62 heartlibOpen lyric+tag music generation stack for 2026
31 MuseFully open long-form song model with style controls
7 AudioSepText-queried universal audio separation
8 AudioLDM2Latent diffusion for text-to-audio and music
66 ultimatevocalremoverguiDesktop GUI for high-quality vocal/stem removal
60 voice-changerReal-time AI voice changer for streams and games
13 so-vits-svcClassic open singing voice conversion stack
Build games faster with AI: asset generation, image-to-3D pipelines, AI modders and one-person studio toolkits.
14 overallPoint Claude at any game — and let it mod almost anything.
78 skillsProduction-ready images, video, audio and 3D — generated from any agent.
78 image-to-3dlabDrop an image, get a game-ready 3D asset — on Apple Silicon.
76 ohmygameYour own one-person game studio, orchestrated by AI.
59 texel-studioPixel-art agent that paints sprites tool-by-tool
67 spritebrewGenerate and export game-ready pixel sprite sheets
68 spritesageSprite editor with AI assist and Godot export
58 TRELLISStructured image-to-3D for game props
58 TripoSRFast feed-forward image-to-3D
13 InstantMeshEfficient image-to-3D meshes
7 stable-dreamfusionClassic open text-to-3D playground
3 PuLIDPuLID (Pure and Lightning ID customization) is an identity-consistent image generation method: one reference photo is enough to place the same character into new scenes, styles and outfits — without the heavy fine-tuning LoRA training usually requires.
8 MotionCtrlControllable camera/object motion for AI video
7 i2vgen-xlImage-to-video for animating concept art
Open-source large language models, runtimes and serving engines. Compare them by speed, hardware requirements and how actively they are maintained.
5 overallTurbocharge LLM/VLM serving with 4-bit weights and a fast gRPC API.
0 SmolLM2-1.7B-InstructA 1.7B model good enough to be your default on-device LLM.
15 Phi-3.5-mini-instructA 3.8B model that reasons better than models twice its size.
0 Qwen2.5-3B-InstructA 3B all-rounder with unexpectedly good coding and 29+ languages.
13 gemma-3-1b-itA 1B model that reads images and speaks 140+ languages with a 128K context.
Frameworks for building AI agents that plan, call tools and collaborate. Look at abstraction level, multi-agent support and production readiness before you pick one.
8 overallRecord everything on your screen locally and let AI search and act on it.
72 gpt-researcherPoint it at a question; it browses the web and hands back a sourced report.
78 e2bGive your agent a disposable Linux sandbox to run untrusted code safely.
56 khojAsk questions across your own notes, files and chats from a chat box.
80 litellmOne import to talk to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral and 100+ more.
62 skillsThe canonical Skill library — copy any SKILL.md and your agent gains a capability.
69 superpowersDrop-in skills that make your coding agent actually do TDD and debug properly.
68 planning-with-filesGive your agent a durable, file-backed plan it actually follows.
Retrieval-augmented generation toolkits and ready-to-run knowledge-base apps. The key differences are document parsing quality, retrieval strategy and deployment effort.
6 overallRecord everything on your screen locally and let AI search and act on it.
72 gpt-researcherPoint it at a question; it browses the web and hands back a sourced report.
77 WrenAIAsk your database questions in plain English; it clarifies, then writes the SQL.
78 doclingTurn messy PDFs and Office docs into clean Markdown, JSON or a layout tree.
56 khojAsk questions across your own notes, files and chats from a chat box.
72 txtaiEmbed, index, search and prompt — no separate vector DB to run.
Reusable skills, prompts and plugins that extend what coding and general-purpose agents can do.
10 overallThe canonical Skill library — copy any SKILL.md and your agent gains a capability.
69 superpowersDrop-in skills that make your coding agent actually do TDD and debug properly.
63 Skill_SeekersPoint it at a docs site and get a ready-to-use SKILL.md back.
71 ui-ux-pro-max-skillMake your agent stop shipping generic 'AI slop' front-ends.
68 planning-with-filesGive your agent a durable, file-backed plan it actually follows.
73 scientific-agent-skillsDomain skills that let an agent do real scientific analysis.
70 humanizerMake AI drafts read like a human wrote them.
46 awesome-claude-skillsThe discovery index for finding your next agent skill.
79 universal-modderPoint Claude at any game — and let it mod almost anything.
78 skillsProduction-ready images, video, audio and 3D — generated from any agent.
Open-source coding agents and editor extensions. Compare model flexibility, autonomy level and cost control.
3 overallRun models on your own laptop, workstation or server. We highlight minimum VRAM, platform support and how fast you can get a first answer.
1 overallModels and tools that work across text, images, audio and video.
3 overallDatasets, benchmarks and evaluation harnesses for measuring model quality.
2 overallSelf-hostable platforms for building chat apps, agents and automations without writing everything from scratch.
5 overallAsk your database questions in plain English; it clarifies, then writes the SQL.
82 ArcReelTurn a novel or screenplay into a finished video, on your own server.
81 dramaclawA general-purpose AIGC video engine: script to finished film in one pipeline.
76 ohmygameYour own one-person game studio, orchestrated by AI.
75 ACE-Step-StudioOne-click Windows studio built on ACE-Step 1.5 XL
Vector databases and similarity search engines that power RAG and recommendation systems.
2 overallAgents that operate browsers and desktops the way people do: clicking, typing and reading the screen.
1 overallscreenpipe
Record everything on your screen locally and let AI search and act on it.
gpt-researcher
Point it at a question; it browses the web and hands back a sourced report.
WrenAI
Ask your database questions in plain English; it clarifies, then writes the SQL.
e2b
Give your agent a disposable Linux sandbox to run untrusted code safely.
lmdeploy
Turbocharge LLM/VLM serving with 4-bit weights and a fast gRPC API.
docling
Turn messy PDFs and Office docs into clean Markdown, JSON or a layout tree.
khoj
Ask questions across your own notes, files and chats from a chat box.
txtai
Embed, index, search and prompt — no separate vector DB to run.
litellm
One import to talk to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral and 100+ more.
gmft
Pull tables out of PDFs into DataFrame with almost no setup.
skills
The canonical Skill library — copy any SKILL.md and your agent gains a capability.
superpowers
Drop-in skills that make your coding agent actually do TDD and debug properly.
Skill_Seekers
Point it at a docs site and get a ready-to-use SKILL.md back.
ui-ux-pro-max-skill
Make your agent stop shipping generic 'AI slop' front-ends.
planning-with-files
Give your agent a durable, file-backed plan it actually follows.
scientific-agent-skills
Domain skills that let an agent do real scientific analysis.
humanizer
Make AI drafts read like a human wrote them.
awesome-claude-skills
The discovery index for finding your next agent skill.
Kokoro-82M
Studio-quality TTS from an 82M model you can run on a CPU.
SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct
A vision-language model that fits on a laptop and reads video.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct
A 1.7B model good enough to be your default on-device LLM.
Phi-3.5-mini-instruct
A 3.8B model that reasons better than models twice its size.
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct
A 3B all-rounder with unexpectedly good coding and 29+ languages.
gemma-3-1b-it
A 1B model that reads images and speaks 140+ languages with a 128K context.
all-MiniLM-L6-v2
The 22M embedding model behind half the semantic search on the planet.
MiniCPM-V-2_6
A 3B model that sees, hears and reads — with excellent OCR.
ArcReel
Turn a novel or screenplay into a finished video, on your own server.
dramaclaw
A general-purpose AIGC video engine: script to finished film in one pipeline.
FunClip
Transcribe, subtitle and LLM-clip long videos — locally.
auto-editor
Effort-free video editing: it cuts the dead air for you.
reelmimic
Show it a video you love; get a new video in the same style.
dicebear
Deterministic avatars and illustrations for developers — 30+ styles, one API.
Pixelorama
A free, open pixel art multitool — sprites, animation and palettes.
PixiEditor
One universal 2D editor: pixels, vectors, animation and node graphs.
universal-modder
Point Claude at any game — and let it mod almost anything.
skills
Production-ready images, video, audio and 3D — generated from any agent.
image-to-3dlab
Drop an image, get a game-ready 3D asset — on Apple Silicon.
ohmygame
Your own one-person game studio, orchestrated by AI.
ACE-Step-1.5
Local full-song music generation that fits on a consumer GPU
YuE
Open music model with symbolic planning and zero-shot covers
ACE-Step
Earlier ACE-Step stack — still useful if you follow v1 tutorials
demucs
Split any track into vocals, drums, bass and other stems
stable-audio-tools
Training and inference toolkit for Stable Audio open models
audiocraft
MusicGen and companion models for text-to-music
DiffSinger
Diffusion-based singing voice synthesis toolkit
ACE-Step-Studio
One-click Windows studio built on ACE-Step 1.5 XL
F5-TTS
Fast zero-shot TTS with natural prosody
fish-speech
Multilingual open TTS with an active community
OpenVoice
Instant voice cloning with style control
Retrieval-based-Voice-Conversion-WebUI
The default WebUI for voice conversion covers
whisperX
Word-level timestamps on top of Whisper-class ASR
SadTalker
Talking-head video from one photo plus audio
Real-ESRGAN
Practical super-resolution for photos, anime and frames
InstantID
Keep the same face across generated images without heavy fine-tuning
DiffRhythm2
Full songs with lyric alignment via block flow matching
heartlib
Open lyric+tag music generation stack for 2026
Muse
Fully open long-form song model with style controls
AudioSep
Text-queried universal audio separation
AudioLDM2
Latent diffusion for text-to-audio and music
ultimatevocalremovergui
Desktop GUI for high-quality vocal/stem removal
voice-changer
Real-time AI voice changer for streams and games
so-vits-svc
Classic open singing voice conversion stack
texel-studio
Pixel-art agent that paints sprites tool-by-tool
spritebrew
Generate and export game-ready pixel sprite sheets
spritesage
Sprite editor with AI assist and Godot export
TRELLIS
Structured image-to-3D for game props
TripoSR
Fast feed-forward image-to-3D
InstantMesh
Efficient image-to-3D meshes
stable-dreamfusion
Classic open text-to-3D playground
Omost
LLM-composed canvases for structured concept art
PuLID
PuLID (Pure and Lightning ID customization) is an identity-consistent image generation method: one reference photo is enough to place the same character into new scenes, styles and outfits — without the heavy fine-tuning LoRA training usually requires.
MotionCtrl
Controllable camera/object motion for AI video
i2vgen-xl
Image-to-video for animating concept art
screenpipe
Record everything on your screen locally and let AI search and act on it.
gpt-researcher
Point it at a question; it browses the web and hands back a sourced report.
WrenAI
Ask your database questions in plain English; it clarifies, then writes the SQL.
e2b
Give your agent a disposable Linux sandbox to run untrusted code safely.
lmdeploy
Turbocharge LLM/VLM serving with 4-bit weights and a fast gRPC API.
docling
Turn messy PDFs and Office docs into clean Markdown, JSON or a layout tree.
khoj
Ask questions across your own notes, files and chats from a chat box.
txtai
Embed, index, search and prompt — no separate vector DB to run.
litellm
One import to talk to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral and 100+ more.
gmft
Pull tables out of PDFs into DataFrame with almost no setup.
ArcReel
Turn a novel or screenplay into a finished video, on your own server.
dramaclaw
A general-purpose AIGC video engine: script to finished film in one pipeline.
FunClip
Transcribe, subtitle and LLM-clip long videos — locally.
auto-editor
Effort-free video editing: it cuts the dead air for you.
reelmimic
Show it a video you love; get a new video in the same style.
dicebear
Deterministic avatars and illustrations for developers — 30+ styles, one API.
Pixelorama
A free, open pixel art multitool — sprites, animation and palettes.
PixiEditor
One universal 2D editor: pixels, vectors, animation and node graphs.
universal-modder
Point Claude at any game — and let it mod almost anything.
image-to-3dlab
Drop an image, get a game-ready 3D asset — on Apple Silicon.
ohmygame
Your own one-person game studio, orchestrated by AI.
ACE-Step-1.5
Local full-song music generation that fits on a consumer GPU
YuE
Open music model with symbolic planning and zero-shot covers
ACE-Step
Earlier ACE-Step stack — still useful if you follow v1 tutorials
demucs
Split any track into vocals, drums, bass and other stems
stable-audio-tools
Training and inference toolkit for Stable Audio open models
audiocraft
MusicGen and companion models for text-to-music
DiffSinger
Diffusion-based singing voice synthesis toolkit
ACE-Step-Studio
One-click Windows studio built on ACE-Step 1.5 XL
F5-TTS
Fast zero-shot TTS with natural prosody
fish-speech
Multilingual open TTS with an active community
OpenVoice
Instant voice cloning with style control
Retrieval-based-Voice-Conversion-WebUI
The default WebUI for voice conversion covers
whisperX
Word-level timestamps on top of Whisper-class ASR
SadTalker
Talking-head video from one photo plus audio
Real-ESRGAN
Practical super-resolution for photos, anime and frames
InstantID
Keep the same face across generated images without heavy fine-tuning
DiffRhythm2
Full songs with lyric alignment via block flow matching
heartlib
Open lyric+tag music generation stack for 2026
Muse
Fully open long-form song model with style controls
AudioSep
Text-queried universal audio separation
AudioLDM2
Latent diffusion for text-to-audio and music
ultimatevocalremovergui
Desktop GUI for high-quality vocal/stem removal
voice-changer
Real-time AI voice changer for streams and games
so-vits-svc
Classic open singing voice conversion stack
texel-studio
Pixel-art agent that paints sprites tool-by-tool
spritebrew
Generate and export game-ready pixel sprite sheets
spritesage
Sprite editor with AI assist and Godot export
TRELLIS
Structured image-to-3D for game props
TripoSR
Fast feed-forward image-to-3D
InstantMesh
Efficient image-to-3D meshes
stable-dreamfusion
Classic open text-to-3D playground
Omost
LLM-composed canvases for structured concept art
PuLID
PuLID (Pure and Lightning ID customization) is an identity-consistent image generation method: one reference photo is enough to place the same character into new scenes, styles and outfits — without the heavy fine-tuning LoRA training usually requires.
MotionCtrl
Controllable camera/object motion for AI video
i2vgen-xl
Image-to-video for animating concept art
skills
The canonical Skill library — copy any SKILL.md and your agent gains a capability.
superpowers
Drop-in skills that make your coding agent actually do TDD and debug properly.
Skill_Seekers
Point it at a docs site and get a ready-to-use SKILL.md back.
ui-ux-pro-max-skill
Make your agent stop shipping generic 'AI slop' front-ends.
planning-with-files
Give your agent a durable, file-backed plan it actually follows.
scientific-agent-skills
Domain skills that let an agent do real scientific analysis.
humanizer
Make AI drafts read like a human wrote them.
awesome-claude-skills
The discovery index for finding your next agent skill.
skills
Production-ready images, video, audio and 3D — generated from any agent.
Kokoro-82M
Studio-quality TTS from an 82M model you can run on a CPU.
SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct
A vision-language model that fits on a laptop and reads video.
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct
A 1.7B model good enough to be your default on-device LLM.
Phi-3.5-mini-instruct
A 3.8B model that reasons better than models twice its size.
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct
A 3B all-rounder with unexpectedly good coding and 29+ languages.
gemma-3-1b-it
A 1B model that reads images and speaks 140+ languages with a 128K context.
all-MiniLM-L6-v2
The 22M embedding model behind half the semantic search on the planet.
MiniCPM-V-2_6
A 3B model that sees, hears and reads — with excellent OCR.